On Mon, Feb 08, 2021 at 06:00:45PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote:
> In response to #774910, grub-common gained a dependency on mtools, but I
> do not think this makes much sense. Creating a rescue disk with
> grub-mkrescue also requires xorriso, so the dependency on mtools alone
> is useless.
>
> Per
Package: grub-common
Followup-For: Bug #982313
X-Debbugs-Cc: j...@joshtriplett.org
I agree; I think it'd be perfectly reasonable to have Recommends on both
mtools and xorriso, but a hard dependency suggests that grub can't work
without them. grub works fine without either mtools or xorriso
install
Package: grub-common
Version: 2.04-14
Severity: normal
In response to #774910, grub-common gained a dependency on mtools, but I
do not think this makes much sense. Creating a rescue disk with
grub-mkrescue also requires xorriso, so the dependency on mtools alone
is useless.
Personally I rely on
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